“These double standards cannot continue and we hope that this latest strike action will focus the minds of management to see sense."”

A Post Office spokesman said: “We need to get the Crown network to break even by March 2015. The union needs to recognise that and work with us to achieve it rather than wasting time on strike action.”

On Saturday Duncan Enright, a West Oxfordshire district councillor for the Witney East ward, will be collecting signatures for a petition designed to fight the plans to close the Witney branch.

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